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Total Gas/Effective Fuel Ratio Predicts Coast Surge in Emission-Control Vehicles
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In the course of developing a low-emission manual transmission vehicle, coast surge in the fore-and-aft direction resulting from the installation of certain emission-control devices was sometimes experienced immediately after the initiation of vehicle deceleration.
Our investigation revealed that this vehicle surge was caused by combustion irregularities in a sequence of combustion-misfire-intense combustion events occurring every several cycles.
A new combustibility standard. Gt/Feff, defined as the ratio of total cylinder mixture weight Gt to effective fuel weight Feff, was found to predict combustibility and irregular combustion over the entire mixture range.
As a result, driveability during deceleration was improved by modifying key emission-control components.
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Nagumo, S., Nakajima, Y., and Hase, Y., "Total Gas/Effective Fuel Ratio Predicts Coast Surge in Emission-Control Vehicles," SAE Technical Paper 800827, 1980, https://doi.org/10.4271/800827.Also In
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